Test Bank For Public Health Nursing: Practicing Population-
Based Care: Practicing Population-Based Care 3rd Edition By
Marie Truglio-Londrigan , Sandra B. Lewenson
9781284121292 ALL Chapters .
Public health nursing stands out from most other types of nursing because it focuses on:
a. The individual in a hospital
b. The health status of a community
c. Quality control of surgical procedures
d. Preventing symptoms but not disease - ANSWER: b. the health status of the community
Public health nursing focuses on:
a. Community-oriented disease prevention
b. The health of vulnerable subpopulations
c. Specific issues of a population
d. All of the above - ANSWER: D. All of the above
WILL USE THIS QUESTION BUT WILL REWORD IT:
3. Which of the following is NOT a population-focused intervention that would be expected as an
aspect of public health nursing:
a. Develop and implement community-based health education
b. Participate in disaster planning and mobilization of community resources in communities
c. Utilize screenings to identify subpopulations at risk for disease or disability
d. Administering medications to patients in the hospital setting - ANSWER: D- administering
medications to patients in the hospital setting
Healthy People 2020's focus is to provide __________ care rather than __________ care.
a. Crisis; preventative
b. Holistic; disease-specific
c. Disease specific; holistic - ANSWER: b- holistic; disease specific
What is not an objective of Healthy People 2020?
a. Lower health costs for all individuals.
b. Attain high quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death.
c. Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups. - ANSWER: a-
lower health costs for all individuals
What is Healthy People 2020 designed to provide?
a. Lowered healthcare costs for the unemployed.
b. A roadmap for improving the health of all people in the US.
c. Provide public health services to the community. - ANSWER: b. - a roadmap for improving the
health of all people in the U.S.
THIS Q WILL BE REWORDED:
1. Which of the following is not a core function of public health?
a. Policy development
b. Quality improvement
c. Assurance
d. Assessment - ANSWER: b - quality improvement
2. Which of the following is an essential service that falls under assessment in the core functions of
public health?
a. Enforce laws and regulations to protect community safety.
b. Assure a competent public health and personal health care workforce
, c. Monitor status to identify community health problems.
d. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts. - ANSWER: C-
monitor status to identify community health problems
A public health nurse is mobilizing community collaborations to promote change in local health
problems regarding tobacco use. The goal of these partnerships is to create new guidelines for
providing smoking education in schools. This describes which core function of public health?
a. Policy development
b. Assessment
c. Capitation
d. Managed Care - ANSWER: A - policy development
Looking at the Minnesota wheel above, which intervention is an example coming from the
surveillance category?
a. Going to court for a foster child to encourage proper placement for the child's best success
b. Instructing a newly diagnosed diabetic how to properly check his blood glucose
c. Gathering mortality rates for statistical analysis from the local hospital
d. Working with the local school and police station to teach teens about texting and driving -
ANSWER: C- gathering mortality rates for statistical analysis from the local hospital
Looking at the Minnesota wheel above, which intervention is an example coming from the advocacy
category?
a. Instructing a newly diagnosed diabetic how to properly check his blood glucose
b. Gathering mortality rates for statistical analysis from the local hospital
c. Going to court for a foster child to encourage proper placement for the child's best success
d. Working with the local school and police station to teach teens about texting and driving -
ANSWER: C- going to court for a foster child to encourage proper placement for the child's best
success
Looking at the Minnesota wheel above, which intervention is an example coming from the health
teaching category?
a. Instructing a newly diagnosed diabetic how to properly check his blood glucose
b. Working with the local school and police station to teach teens about texting and driving
b. Gathering mortality rates for statistical analysis from the local hospital
d. Going to court for a foster child to encourage proper placement for the child's best success -
ANSWER: a- instructing a newly diagnosed diabetic how to properly check his blood glucose
Participation observation, such as interacting with community members or attending a community
social event, is an example of? (P. 401 in textbook Course objective #2 on Blueprint)
a. Partnership
b. Primary data
c. Spatial data
d. Secondary data - ANSWER: b- primary data
What does negotiation in partnerships mean? (P. 400 in textbook Course objective #2 on Blueprint)
a. aware of own and others perceptions
b. unique contribution to each situation
c. Distribution of Power
d. primary prevention - ANSWER: C- distribution of power
What is one example of a community assessment? (p. 408 in textbook Course objective #1 on
Blueprint)
a. Windshield survey
b. Community observation
c. Collecting primary data
d. talking to people in the town - ANSWER: a - windshield survey
Based Care: Practicing Population-Based Care 3rd Edition By
Marie Truglio-Londrigan , Sandra B. Lewenson
9781284121292 ALL Chapters .
Public health nursing stands out from most other types of nursing because it focuses on:
a. The individual in a hospital
b. The health status of a community
c. Quality control of surgical procedures
d. Preventing symptoms but not disease - ANSWER: b. the health status of the community
Public health nursing focuses on:
a. Community-oriented disease prevention
b. The health of vulnerable subpopulations
c. Specific issues of a population
d. All of the above - ANSWER: D. All of the above
WILL USE THIS QUESTION BUT WILL REWORD IT:
3. Which of the following is NOT a population-focused intervention that would be expected as an
aspect of public health nursing:
a. Develop and implement community-based health education
b. Participate in disaster planning and mobilization of community resources in communities
c. Utilize screenings to identify subpopulations at risk for disease or disability
d. Administering medications to patients in the hospital setting - ANSWER: D- administering
medications to patients in the hospital setting
Healthy People 2020's focus is to provide __________ care rather than __________ care.
a. Crisis; preventative
b. Holistic; disease-specific
c. Disease specific; holistic - ANSWER: b- holistic; disease specific
What is not an objective of Healthy People 2020?
a. Lower health costs for all individuals.
b. Attain high quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death.
c. Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups. - ANSWER: a-
lower health costs for all individuals
What is Healthy People 2020 designed to provide?
a. Lowered healthcare costs for the unemployed.
b. A roadmap for improving the health of all people in the US.
c. Provide public health services to the community. - ANSWER: b. - a roadmap for improving the
health of all people in the U.S.
THIS Q WILL BE REWORDED:
1. Which of the following is not a core function of public health?
a. Policy development
b. Quality improvement
c. Assurance
d. Assessment - ANSWER: b - quality improvement
2. Which of the following is an essential service that falls under assessment in the core functions of
public health?
a. Enforce laws and regulations to protect community safety.
b. Assure a competent public health and personal health care workforce
, c. Monitor status to identify community health problems.
d. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts. - ANSWER: C-
monitor status to identify community health problems
A public health nurse is mobilizing community collaborations to promote change in local health
problems regarding tobacco use. The goal of these partnerships is to create new guidelines for
providing smoking education in schools. This describes which core function of public health?
a. Policy development
b. Assessment
c. Capitation
d. Managed Care - ANSWER: A - policy development
Looking at the Minnesota wheel above, which intervention is an example coming from the
surveillance category?
a. Going to court for a foster child to encourage proper placement for the child's best success
b. Instructing a newly diagnosed diabetic how to properly check his blood glucose
c. Gathering mortality rates for statistical analysis from the local hospital
d. Working with the local school and police station to teach teens about texting and driving -
ANSWER: C- gathering mortality rates for statistical analysis from the local hospital
Looking at the Minnesota wheel above, which intervention is an example coming from the advocacy
category?
a. Instructing a newly diagnosed diabetic how to properly check his blood glucose
b. Gathering mortality rates for statistical analysis from the local hospital
c. Going to court for a foster child to encourage proper placement for the child's best success
d. Working with the local school and police station to teach teens about texting and driving -
ANSWER: C- going to court for a foster child to encourage proper placement for the child's best
success
Looking at the Minnesota wheel above, which intervention is an example coming from the health
teaching category?
a. Instructing a newly diagnosed diabetic how to properly check his blood glucose
b. Working with the local school and police station to teach teens about texting and driving
b. Gathering mortality rates for statistical analysis from the local hospital
d. Going to court for a foster child to encourage proper placement for the child's best success -
ANSWER: a- instructing a newly diagnosed diabetic how to properly check his blood glucose
Participation observation, such as interacting with community members or attending a community
social event, is an example of? (P. 401 in textbook Course objective #2 on Blueprint)
a. Partnership
b. Primary data
c. Spatial data
d. Secondary data - ANSWER: b- primary data
What does negotiation in partnerships mean? (P. 400 in textbook Course objective #2 on Blueprint)
a. aware of own and others perceptions
b. unique contribution to each situation
c. Distribution of Power
d. primary prevention - ANSWER: C- distribution of power
What is one example of a community assessment? (p. 408 in textbook Course objective #1 on
Blueprint)
a. Windshield survey
b. Community observation
c. Collecting primary data
d. talking to people in the town - ANSWER: a - windshield survey
